History Is Not Distant, It Is Breathing Beside Us
In New Orleans, a 97-year-old collapses the lie of “ancient history”. Martin Luther King Jr. is not remote; slavery’s afterlives are not abstract. The wealth of bondage built America, while its descendants were locked out. This past is recent, embodied, and unresolved. Black History is not nostalgia, it is an indictment.
People get angry when I say “Black people don’t own or control Black culture in America” they had to own it and control it to whitewash all the atrocities they committed…